Hollywood: Uneasy Lies the Head . . .

Elizabeth Taylor, in Rome filming 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra, opened a can of spoiled beans, ate them, and was carted away feet first to a Roman hospital with a galloping case of food poisoning. That alone was enough to make headlines everywhere. But Liz had opened more than a can of beans.

Looking as gaunt as a secondhand scarecrow, Husband Eddie Fisher flew back from a TV performance in Lisbon and hurried to his sick wife's bedside. Actor Richard Burton—who plays Mark Antony in the picture—flew in from Paris, where he had been moonlighting in a minor part in The Longest Day....

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